GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compulsory | mandatory |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| omnipotent | almighty |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| savory | having savor: such as |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| feint | something feigned |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |